St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-12
W. A. DOLLIVER.

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W. A. DOLLIVER.
This well known citizen of Minneapo-
lis was obliged to sit on ice while his
picture was taken for this column-sO
he would keep. With his rich seal
brown complexion and Oriental whisk-
erS, he is one of the noticeable figures
on Nicollect avenue Mr.. Dolliver was
originally educated for the ministry and
was sent hither by local missionary
society of Pen Yam, Pa, to convert In
dians. Arriving here he con-
Guided that promise to pay was
in greater demand than a promise of
hereafter and therefore embarked in the
insurance business. Once only has he
been known to assume the duties of his
prieStly calling, and that was when he
read prayer engraved upon the face of
an English sovereign at church dedi-
cation at which Elder j. G. Joyslin, Dr.
5. s. KilvingtOn and other earnest work.
erS officiated. Mr.. DOlliver is an hon
Ored member of the Chicago, Milwaukee
IL st. Paul Rod and Gun club, and has
held the Office of chaplain since its or
ganiZatiOn. Like A. B. Chamberlin, he
suffers greatly from the heat and sleeps
upon a mattress filled with cracked
ice when at home. While on
hunting excursions he always
takes his siesta in the ice box. The
wonderful powers of endurance for
which he is noted first attracted atten-
ton on the excursion of the club in the
fall of 1886, when an eleven cell galvanic
battery, vigorously operated, tailed to
bulge him. 1t TRANSFERRED year later
that he had previously removed the
liquids from the cells of the battery, but
at that time he gained great renown.as
man of iron physique. He is an eX-
pert shot and on one afternoons
hunt, besides bagging three grouse,
pOkeS, one Seagull and chicken hawk,
brought down a span of mules, made a
bul'S-eye on the dash board of the
wagon and filled Lew HarrisOn's face
so full of No. 6 shot that he has
been freckled ever sine. Mr.. Delivers
record as an epicure is written on the
door of the hunting car in commemOra-
ton of feast at which he ate two bars
of Pears soap, two lOaveS of bread and
a peck of raw onions. He has hush
tenor voice of great volume and sweet
ness, and his refrain I'm Going Home
to Die No More" has been known to
make even Indians weep. True to his
ministerial calling he has of late shown
great interest in the Salvation army,
and has become an adept performer on
the tambOurine.
A. j. Blethen is going to dock his re-
pOrterS if they are Sc0oped. Well, the
Tribune was Scooped. Friday morning,
on the arrest of A. j. Blethen for reck-
less driving.
Anxious Reader is informed that to
the best of knowledge and belief, E.
cars on free pass.
j. III. Paulson is wondering how he
ever conceived the idea he could play
chess.
Charley Parker has been inquiring of
the walking from Winnipeg and has
also read up Oh the helOfafiX scrape of
Loren Fletcher ct al. in that city.
G. III. Dubois did not once say 'swe''
in his lecture on the Clauson panorama,
which shows he was seriously embar-
raised.
Sam Hill is credited with congress
SiOnal aSpiratiOnS,yet he is in all serious
ness grooming another man for the race.
w. A. Dolliver is not the man Mark
Trip on the Raging Canal" That was
some other Dolliver.
Alick Millar is carefully training him
self to run for alderman. 1t is a long
way off, but Alick is growing pole that
will reach to the top of the persimmon
tree.
AS patron of music and art, John S.
Pillsbury has come right to the front.
w. HI. Eustis is rapidly coming to the
conclusion that he is the only promi-
nent politician who says he is for Blaine
and means it.
Judge Hicks measures four inches
larger about the waist since he sat on
the bench, and has changed his hat from
~ to ~.
M. B. Koon is practicing calling out:
''Mr. Speaker" This means congress
and not the legislature, however.
A. B. Chamberlain rejoices in the
present of pair of diamond cuff but
tons. This came of his pretty portrait
in the GLOBE last Sunday week.
W.G.Byron is laying in large stock of
good humor to run him through the ex-
position season. Any persons having a
surplus of the article can find ready
market at 100 Nicollet.
j. G. Worrall, the brilliant young Min
neapOliS attorney, was in our town, last
week, on fishing trip. He caught no
fish, but our enterprising citizens sur
rounded him at night and demanded q
speech. His eloquent response was on
the theme of state politics, entitled "a
Bungling Campaign, or saved by an in
cident. Bazoo.
Selah Mathews has grown ten years
younger since the cares of official life
were lifted from his brow. Give him
pouch of dark fine cut and good game
of ball and he wont care whether school
keeps or not.
Judge j. o. Pierce has the satisfac-
ton of knowing that his labors with the
legal fledgelingS have not been in vain.
They caned him so9ndly last night